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Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference Structural Biology: Deeper into the Cell. 22nd – 24th May, 2019. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. The 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 22 till May 24, 2019. The historical Alcalá de Henares was the original location of the Universidad Complutense, founded in

Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, June 26 – 27, 2018 Summary I2PC is organising its second Cryo-EM Facilities meeting. The aim is to gather together Cryo-EM Facility managers who want to share their experience, problems and solutions on data handling and processing, using Scipion or not. I2PC, as developers of

Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, June 27 – 29, 2018 Overall aims and course outline I2PC is organising its first Cryo-EM Scipion course for Facilities, which is the second one in the series “I2PC-Thermo Fisher Scientific Course“. Scipion team and collaborators have been working in the last years in what we

We are very pleased to announce the release of a new version of Scipion. It’s been over a year since the previous and first version and we have been working on 3 main goals for this release: Consolidation: We put and will always put our best effort into making Scipion a robust and reliable software.

Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, January 17 – 19, 2018 Overall aims and course outline Electron Microscopy (EM) is rapidly growing as a high-resolution technique for structural biology. However, the high price of the electron microscopes is causing the concentration of scientific equipment in a few labs whose access is

In the context of a number of national and international calls/projects, and for incorporation at the Biocomputing Unit of the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, we are seeking for a mixed profile of a CryoEM structural biologist with programing skills, or vice versa. In the absence of one of the skills, you must be ready to learn

Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research in structural biology. Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the integrative use of technologies and methodologies that are available at our 16 Instruct Centres around Europe and in Israel. The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres.

CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is an EC Horizon2020 project uniting 11 Biological and Medical Science Research Infrastructures (RIs). In CORBEL, the participating RIs expand their cooperation in order to harmonise researchers’ access to their cutting-edge technologies and services by establishing a sustainable platform of aligned services that will enable

Brno, Czech Republic, 24th to 26th May 2017 Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Meeting will be held at the International Best Western Hotel, Brno, CzechRepublic. The meeting will showcase integrative structural biology and its impact on biological research. The program will include sessions that represent recent advances in structural biology towards cellular biology, emerging methods and

First I2PC-FEI “hands on” course on image processing. Madrid, 17 – 20 October, 2016. The Instruct Image Processing Center at the CNB-CSIC and FEI Corporation joint course aims to provide an in-depth presentation of current image processing methods in cryo-Electron Microscopy. The course will be of a very practical nature. Course web page

First iNEXT All Hands Meeting. Madrid, 19 – 21 October, 2016. AHM 2016 is the first annual meeting of iNEXT. It aims at gathering not only iNEXT Partners, but also iNEXT Users (or intended users) contacted directly by the different Facilities in the project. iNEXT Partners, together with the Scientific Advisory Board and the Industry

From 2D images to 3D structures: A practical course on Electron Microscopy Single Particle Analysis. Madrid, May 17 – 20, 2016 A joint computational course between the Instruct Image Processing Center (I2PC) and the Collaborative Computational Project for Electron cryo-Microscopy (CCP-EM, a member of CCISB). Tutors from Spain and the UK will address the complete